Obama announces new cybersecurity direction
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By Grant Gross
U.S. President Barack Obama will appoint a government-wide
cybersecurity coordinator and elevate cybersecurity concerns to
a top management priority for the U.S. government, he announced
Friday.Read full story
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Senior Editor Ellen Messmer covers security for Network World.
E-mail Ellen mailto:emessmer@nww.com .
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reduce the risk of data stored on the device from being
compromised.
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Hardware and identity management
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Those of you who know me know that I rarely get excited about
hardware. And while I'll be telling you about two hardware
companies in this newsletter, it isn't the hardware I want to
talk about, but what these companies do with it. Switches,
routers, firewall devices and network access control (NAC) have
been with us for quite some time. But some companies are
beginning to realize that the term "identity" when used in
conjunction with these devices means more than an IP or media
access control address.
Free hands-on Cisco router practice
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